March 8, 2022 Florida recommendation against vaccinating healthy children draws scathing media response Florida Surgeon General Dr. Joseph Ladapo's announcement that the state would recommend healthy children not get the coronavirus vaccine generated a scathing response in the media.
March 8, 2022 Chicago teachers vow to fight order to drop mask mandates, Puerto Rico lifts restrictions With COVID-19 cases and hospitalizations continuing to fall significantly across the U.S., local, state and territory governments and schools have begun to remove mask mandates.
March 8, 2022 California officials raided preschool, interviewed 2-year-olds over mask policies Officials with the California Department of Social Services in January "raided" a San Diego preschool over its failure to enforce the state's mask mandate, the school says.
March 8, 2022 Free federal COVID-19 tests available again More free at-home COVID-19 tests are available from the government.
March 8, 2022 DC truckers say convoy will continue to loop Beltway, won't leave until politicians ‘hear our stories’ Representatives of the People's Convoy met with U.S. Sens. Ted Cruz and Ron Johnson in Washington, D.C. on Tuesday, telling the media they won't stop looping the Beltway until lawmakers hear their stories.
March 8, 2022 CDC director expects COVID-19 to become a 'seasonal virus' Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) Director Dr. Rochelle Walensky said she anticipates COVID-19 will become a seasonal virus.
March 8, 2022 COVID-19 can cause memory loss, brain shrinkage: study COVID-19 can cause the brain to shrink, reduce grey matter in the regions that control emotion and memory, and damage areas that control the sense of smell, an Oxford University study has found.
March 8, 2022 Virginia Democrats block bill to protect religious freedom against executive orders Virginia Senate Democrats blocked a religious freedom bill to protect churches, synagogues and mosques from any "rule, regulation, or order" from the governor or government, such as COVID-19 pandemic restrictions.
March 8, 2022 Mask mandates go away in schools, but parent worries persist Major school districts around the country are allowing students into classrooms without masks for the first time in nearly two years, eliminating rules that stirred up intense fights among educators, school boards, and parents throughout the pandemic.
March 7, 2022 Israeli child diagnosed with polio; first case there in decades An unvaccinated child, 4, from Jerusalem, contracted the highly transmissible virus, making it the first polio case in Israel since 1988, the Israeli Health Ministry said Sunday.
